{"title":"Concordancing for CADS","authors":"Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner","doi":"10.1075/ijcl.21168.gil","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist’s toolkit. However,\n despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods (Mautner, 2015; Taylor & Marchi, 2018), this has not\n focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when\n interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a cursory examination of 800 concordance lines in order to identify potential\n issues. In Step Two, we assess the distribution of those issues in a reduced sample of 200. As a result, we identify eight\n interpretability issues: noise in the corpus, non-standard syntax, unclear referring expressions, unclear quotation source\n attribution, technical terms/jargon, acronyms/initialisms, unspecific co-text, and lines unrelated to the research question. After\n reflecting on practical challenges, we discuss the epistemological implications of removing concordance lines uncritically and\n suggest ten recommendations for future work.","PeriodicalId":46843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Corpus Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21168.gil","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist’s toolkit. However,
despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods (Mautner, 2015; Taylor & Marchi, 2018), this has not
focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when
interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a cursory examination of 800 concordance lines in order to identify potential
issues. In Step Two, we assess the distribution of those issues in a reduced sample of 200. As a result, we identify eight
interpretability issues: noise in the corpus, non-standard syntax, unclear referring expressions, unclear quotation source
attribution, technical terms/jargon, acronyms/initialisms, unspecific co-text, and lines unrelated to the research question. After
reflecting on practical challenges, we discuss the epistemological implications of removing concordance lines uncritically and
suggest ten recommendations for future work.
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The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics.
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